If war broke out tomorrow....

[Nick Burns]

Well GR, keep in mind the idea is to drop one where they can see it, and THEN drop one on a city if that didn't do it. That MIGHT have been the better thing to do, though there's a chance that had they only seen it, while we were giving them time to surrender, they would have been rationalizing it within themselves since no one actually died and figure they could deal with such a weapon.

That MIGHT have worked, If you could find a spot anywhere near there that wasn't heavily populated. That and the fact is that we didn't have the money at that time to take such a gamble. And if we did nuke it for show, who's to say that some nuteral countries wouldn't retaliate?